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Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2c49f7ffb3 commit: don't be fooled by ita entries when creating initial commit
ita entries are dropped at tree generation phase. If the entire index
consists of just ita entries, the result would be a a commit with no
entries, which should be caught unless --allow-empty is specified. The
test "!!active_nr" is not sufficient to catch this.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-10-24 10:54:11 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
018ec3c820 commit: fix empty commit creation when there's no changes but ita entries
If i-t-a entries are present and there is no change between the index
and HEAD i-t-a entries, index_differs_from() still returns "dirty, new
entries" (aka, the resulting commit is not empty), but cache-tree will
skip i-t-a entries and produce the exact same tree of current
commit.

index_differs_from() is supposed to catch this so we can abort
git-commit (unless --no-empty is specified). Update it to optionally
ignore i-t-a entries when doing a diff between the index and HEAD so
that it would return "no change" in this case and abort commit.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-10-24 10:48:23 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
b42b451919 diff: add --ita-[in]visible-in-index
The option --ita-invisible-in-index exposes the "ita_invisible_in_index"
diff flag to outside to allow easier experimentation with this new mode.
The "plan" is to make --ita-invisible-in-index default to keep consistent
behavior with 'status' and 'commit', but a bunch other commands like
'apply', 'merge', 'reset'.... need to be taken into consideration as well.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-10-24 10:47:51 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
425a28e0a4 diff-lib: allow ita entries treated as "not yet exist in index"
When comparing the index and the working tree to show which paths are
new, and comparing the tree recorded in the HEAD and the index to see if
committing the contents recorded in the index would result in an empty
commit, we would want the former comparison to say "these are new paths"
and the latter to say "there is no change" for paths that are marked as
intent-to-add.

We made a similar attempt at d95d728a ("diff-lib.c: adjust position of
i-t-a entries in diff", 2015-03-16), which redefined the semantics of
these two comparison modes globally, which was a disaster and had to be
reverted at 78cc1a54 ("Revert "diff-lib.c: adjust position of i-t-a
entries in diff"", 2015-06-23).

To make sure we do not repeat the same mistake, introduce a new internal
diffopt option so that this different semantics can be asked for only by
callers that ask it, while making sure other unaudited callers will get
the same comparison result.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-10-24 10:47:28 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
21f862b498 Fifth batch for 2.11
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-26 16:11:46 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c4dfd2291b Merge branch 'jk/clone-recursive-progress'
"git clone --recurse-submodules" lost the progress eye-candy in
recent update, which has been corrected.

* jk/clone-recursive-progress:
  clone: pass --progress decision to recursive submodules
2016-09-26 16:09:22 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
bd250ab5ce Merge branch 'jk/doc-cvs-update'
Documentation around tools to import from CVS was fairly outdated.

* jk/doc-cvs-update:
  docs/cvs-migration: mention cvsimport caveats
  docs/cvs-migration: update link to cvsps homepage
  docs/cvsimport: prefer cvs-fast-export to parsecvs
2016-09-26 16:09:22 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
104a93a329 Merge branch 'rt/rebase-i-broken-insn-advise'
When "git rebase -i" is given a broken instruction, it told the
user to fix it with "--edit-todo", but didn't say what the step
after that was (i.e. "--continue").

* rt/rebase-i-broken-insn-advise:
  rebase -i: improve advice on bad instruction lines
2016-09-26 16:09:21 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
e683f17e63 Merge branch 'rs/checkout-init-macro'
Code cleanup.

* rs/checkout-init-macro:
  introduce CHECKOUT_INIT
2016-09-26 16:09:21 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
48b21818ca Merge branch 'ls/travis-homebrew-path-fix'
The procedure to build Git on Mac OS X for Travis CI hardcoded the
internal directory structure we assumed HomeBrew uses, which was a
no-no.  The procedure has been updated to ask HomeBrew things we
need to know to fix this.

* ls/travis-homebrew-path-fix:
  travis-ci: ask homebrew for its path instead of hardcoding it
2016-09-26 16:09:20 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
ebc63580a1 Merge branch 'tg/add-chmod+x-fix'
"git add --chmod=+x <pathspec>" added recently only toggled the
executable bit for paths that are either new or modified. This has
been corrected to flip the executable bit for all paths that match
the given pathspec.

* tg/add-chmod+x-fix:
  t3700-add: do not check working tree file mode without POSIXPERM
  t3700-add: create subdirectory gently
  add: modify already added files when --chmod is given
  read-cache: introduce chmod_index_entry
  update-index: add test for chmod flags
2016-09-26 16:09:20 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
6a67695268 Merge branch 'js/regexec-buf'
Some codepaths in "git diff" used regexec(3) on a buffer that was
mmap(2)ed, which may not have a terminating NUL, leading to a read
beyond the end of the mapped region.  This was fixed by introducing
a regexec_buf() helper that takes a <ptr,len> pair with REG_STARTEND
extension.

* js/regexec-buf:
  regex: use regexec_buf()
  regex: add regexec_buf() that can work on a non NUL-terminated string
  regex: -G<pattern> feeds a non NUL-terminated string to regexec() and fails
2016-09-26 16:09:19 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
31b83f361b Merge branch 'nd/checkout-disambiguation'
"git checkout <word>" does not follow the usual disambiguation
rules when the <word> can be both a rev and a path, to allow
checking out a branch 'foo' in a project that happens to have a
file 'foo' in the working tree without having to disambiguate.
This was poorly documented and the check was incorrect when the
command was run from a subdirectory.

* nd/checkout-disambiguation:
  checkout: fix ambiguity check in subdir
  checkout.txt: document a common case that ignores ambiguation rules
  checkout: add some spaces between code and comment
2016-09-26 16:09:18 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8969feac7e Merge branch 'va/i18n-more'
Even more i18n.

* va/i18n-more:
  i18n: stash: mark messages for translation
  i18n: notes-merge: mark die messages for translation
  i18n: ident: mark hint for translation
  i18n: i18n: diff: mark die messages for translation
  i18n: connect: mark die messages for translation
  i18n: commit: mark message for translation
2016-09-26 16:09:18 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
e447d3182c Merge branch 'jt/format-patch-rfc'
In some projects, it is common to use "[RFC PATCH]" as the subject
prefix for a patch meant for discussion rather than application.  A
new option "--rfc" was a short-hand for "--subject-prefix=RFC PATCH"
to help the participants of such projects.

* jt/format-patch-rfc:
  format-patch: add "--rfc" for the common case of [RFC PATCH]
2016-09-26 16:09:17 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
2a1f3fe6e3 Merge branch 'ep/doc-check-ref-format-example'
A shell script example in check-ref-format documentation has been
fixed.

* ep/doc-check-ref-format-example:
  git-check-ref-format.txt: fixup documentation
2016-09-26 16:09:17 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
b7af6ae5cf Merge branch 'mh/diff-indent-heuristic'
Output from "git diff" can be made easier to read by selecting
which lines are common and which lines are added/deleted
intelligently when the lines before and after the changed section
are the same.  A command line option is added to help with the
experiment to find a good heuristics.

* mh/diff-indent-heuristic:
  blame: honor the diff heuristic options and config
  parse-options: add parse_opt_unknown_cb()
  diff: improve positioning of add/delete blocks in diffs
  xdl_change_compact(): introduce the concept of a change group
  recs_match(): take two xrecord_t pointers as arguments
  is_blank_line(): take a single xrecord_t as argument
  xdl_change_compact(): only use heuristic if group can't be matched
  xdl_change_compact(): fix compaction heuristic to adjust ixo
2016-09-26 16:09:16 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
b3e588a48a Merge branch 'rs/c-auto-resets-attributes'
The pretty-format specifier "%C(auto)" used by the "log" family of
commands to enable coloring of the output is taught to also issue a
color-reset sequence to the output.

* rs/c-auto-resets-attributes:
  pretty: let %C(auto) reset all attributes
2016-09-26 16:09:15 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
7fcc056dfa Merge branch 'mm/config-color-ui-default-to-auto'
Documentation for individual configuration variables to control use
of color (like `color.grep`) said that their default value is
'false', instead of saying their default is taken from `color.ui`.
When we updated the default value for color.ui from 'false' to
'auto' quite a while ago, all of them broke.  This has been
corrected.

* mm/config-color-ui-default-to-auto:
  Documentation/config: default for color.* is color.ui
2016-09-26 16:09:15 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
85f34a929d Merge branch 'rs/cocci'
Code cleanup.

* rs/cocci:
  use strbuf_addstr() for adding constant strings to a strbuf, part 2
  add coccicheck make target
  contrib/coccinelle: fix semantic patch for oid_to_hex_r()
2016-09-26 16:09:14 -07:00
René Scharfe
68e3d6292f introduce CHECKOUT_INIT
Add a static initializer for struct checkout and use it throughout the
code base.  It's shorter, avoids a memset(3) call and makes sure the
base_dir member is initialized to a valid (empty) string.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-22 13:42:18 -07:00
Jeff King
106b672ade docs/cvs-migration: mention cvsimport caveats
Back when this guide was written, cvsimport was the only
game in town. These days it is probably not the best option.
Rather than go into details, let's point people to the note
at the top of cvsimport which gives other options.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-22 11:23:45 -07:00
Jeff King
72e0877a1d docs/cvs-migration: update link to cvsps homepage
The old page gives a 404 now. Searching for "cvsps" via
Google returns a GitHub project page as the top hit.

Reported-by: Dan Pritts
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-22 11:23:45 -07:00
Jeff King
1eba3e5147 docs/cvsimport: prefer cvs-fast-export to parsecvs
parsecvs maintenance was taken over by ESR, and the name
changed to cvs-fast-export as it learned to support that
output format. Let's point to cvs-fast-export, as it should
have additional bug-fixes and be more convenient to use.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-22 11:23:45 -07:00
Jeff King
72c5f88311 clone: pass --progress decision to recursive submodules
When cloning with "--recursive", we'd generally expect
submodules to show progress reports if the main clone did,
too.

In older versions of git, this mostly worked out of the
box. Since we show progress by default when stderr is a tty,
and since the child clones inherit the parent stderr, then
both processes would come to the same decision by default.
If the parent clone was asked for "--quiet", we passed down
"--quiet" to the child. However, if stderr was not a tty and
the user specified "--progress", we did not propagate this
to the child.

That's a minor bug, but things got much worse when we
switched recently to submodule--helper's update_clone
command. With that change, the stderr of the child clones
are always connected to a pipe, and we never output
progress at all.

This patch teaches git-submodule and git-submodule--helper
how to pass down an explicit "--progress" flag when cloning.
The clone command then decides to propagate that flag based
on the cloning decision made earlier (which takes into
account isatty(2) of the parent process, existing --progress
or --quiet flags, etc). Since the child processes always run
without a tty on stderr, we don't have to worry about
passing an explicit "--no-progress"; it's the default for
them.

This fixes the recent loss of progress during recursive
clones. And as a bonus, it makes:

  git clone --recursive --progress ... 2>&1 | cat

work by triggering progress explicitly in the children.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Acked-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-22 11:22:47 -07:00
Lars Schneider
f86f49bee9 travis-ci: ask homebrew for its path instead of hardcoding it
The TravisCI macOS build is broken because homebrew (a macOS dependency
manager) changed its internal directory structure [1]. This is a problem
because we modify the Perforce dependencies in the homebrew repository
before installing them.

Fix it by asking homebrew for its path instead of hardcoding it.

[1] 0a09ae30f8

Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-22 10:23:01 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
6fe1b1407e Fourth batch for 2.11
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-21 15:20:44 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
0952ca8a95 Merge branch 'jk/reduce-gc-aggressive-depth'
"git gc --aggressive" used to limit the delta-chain length to 250,
which is way too deep for gaining additional space savings and is
detrimental for runtime performance.  The limit has been reduced to
50.

* jk/reduce-gc-aggressive-depth:
  gc: default aggressive depth to 50
2016-09-21 15:15:30 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
ae1ae600db Merge branch 'jk/rebase-i-drop-ident-check'
Even when "git pull --rebase=preserve" (and the underlying "git
rebase --preserve") can complete without creating any new commit
(i.e. fast-forwards), it still insisted on having a usable ident
information (read: user.email is set correctly), which was less
than nice.  As the underlying commands used inside "git rebase"
would fail with a more meaningful error message and advice text
when the bogus ident matters, this extra check was removed.

* jk/rebase-i-drop-ident-check:
  rebase-interactive: drop early check for valid ident
2016-09-21 15:15:28 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
1fe6f5fb0a Merge branch 'va/i18n'
More i18n.

* va/i18n:
  i18n: update-index: mark warnings for translation
  i18n: show-branch: mark plural strings for translation
  i18n: show-branch: mark error messages for translation
  i18n: receive-pack: mark messages for translation
  notes: spell first word of error messages in lowercase
  i18n: notes: mark error messages for translation
  i18n: merge-recursive: mark verbose message for translation
  i18n: merge-recursive: mark error messages for translation
  i18n: config: mark error message for translation
  i18n: branch: mark option description for translation
  i18n: blame: mark error messages for translation
2016-09-21 15:15:28 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
e8f871a9ce Merge branch 'jt/format-patch-base-info-above-sig'
"git format-patch --base=..." feature that was recently added
showed the base commit information after "-- " e-mail signature
line, which turned out to be inconvenient.  The base information
has been moved above the signature line.

* jt/format-patch-base-info-above-sig:
  format-patch: show base info before email signature
2016-09-21 15:15:27 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
0c5ff91639 Merge branch 'ks/perf-build-with-autoconf'
Performance tests done via "t/perf" did not use the same set of
build configuration if the user relied on autoconf generated
configuration.

* ks/perf-build-with-autoconf:
  t/perf/run: copy config.mak.autogen & friends to build area
2016-09-21 15:15:27 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
ac5ce66adc Merge branch 'mr/vcs-svn-printf-ulong'
Code cleanup.

* mr/vcs-svn-printf-ulong:
  vcs-svn/fast_export: fix timestamp fmt specifiers
2016-09-21 15:15:27 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
4ed38637ec Merge branch 'rs/xdiff-merge-overlapping-hunks-for-W-context'
"git diff -W" output needs to extend the context backward to
include the header line of the current function and also forward to
include the body of the entire current function up to the header
line of the next one.  This process may have to merge to adjacent
hunks, but the code forgot to do so in some cases.

* rs/xdiff-merge-overlapping-hunks-for-W-context:
  xdiff: fix merging of hunks with -W context and -u context
2016-09-21 15:15:26 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
e9c6d3dcc2 Merge branch 'rs/unpack-trees-reduce-file-scope-global'
Code cleanup.

* rs/unpack-trees-reduce-file-scope-global:
  unpack-trees: pass checkout state explicitly to check_updates()
2016-09-21 15:15:26 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
3ba0bbb901 Merge branch 'rs/strbuf-remove-fix'
Code cleanup.

* rs/strbuf-remove-fix:
  strbuf: use valid pointer in strbuf_remove()
2016-09-21 15:15:25 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
ee19836995 Merge branch 'rs/pack-sort-with-llist-mergesort'
Code cleanup.

* rs/pack-sort-with-llist-mergesort:
  sha1_file: use llist_mergesort() for sorting packs
2016-09-21 15:15:25 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
48e1f8ed01 Merge branch 'rs/checkout-some-states-are-const'
Code cleanup.

* rs/checkout-some-states-are-const:
  checkout: constify parameters of checkout_stage() and checkout_merged()
2016-09-21 15:15:24 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d845d727cb Merge branch 'jk/setup-sequence-update'
There were numerous corner cases in which the configuration files
are read and used or not read at all depending on the directory a
Git command was run, leading to inconsistent behaviour.  The code
to set-up repository access at the beginning of a Git process has
been updated to fix them.

* jk/setup-sequence-update:
  t1007: factor out repeated setup
  init: reset cached config when entering new repo
  init: expand comments explaining config trickery
  config: only read .git/config from configured repos
  test-config: setup git directory
  t1302: use "git -C"
  pager: handle early config
  pager: use callbacks instead of configset
  pager: make pager_program a file-local static
  pager: stop loading git_default_config()
  pager: remove obsolete comment
  diff: always try to set up the repository
  diff: handle --no-index prefixes consistently
  diff: skip implicit no-index check when given --no-index
  patch-id: use RUN_SETUP_GENTLY
  hash-object: always try to set up the git repository
2016-09-21 15:15:24 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
ac8ddd7ba3 Merge branch 'ew/http-do-not-forget-to-call-curl-multi-remove-handle'
The http transport (with curl-multi option, which is the default
these days) failed to remove curl-easy handle from a curlm session,
which led to unnecessary API failures.

* ew/http-do-not-forget-to-call-curl-multi-remove-handle:
  http: always remove curl easy from curlm session on release
  http: consolidate #ifdefs for curl_multi_remove_handle
  http: warn on curl_multi_add_handle failures
2016-09-21 15:15:23 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
570b4494c7 Merge branch 'bw/pathspec-remove-unused-extern-decl'
Code cleanup.

* bw/pathspec-remove-unused-extern-decl:
  pathspec: remove unnecessary function prototypes
2016-09-21 15:15:22 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
7f109ef54e Merge branch 'ks/pack-objects-bitmap'
Some codepaths in "git pack-objects" were not ready to use an
existing pack bitmap; now they are and as the result they have
become faster.

* ks/pack-objects-bitmap:
  pack-objects: use reachability bitmap index when generating non-stdout pack
  pack-objects: respect --local/--honor-pack-keep/--incremental when bitmap is in use
2016-09-21 15:15:21 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f0a84de277 Merge branch 'jk/patch-ids-no-merges'
"git log --cherry-pick" used to include merge commits as candidates
to be matched up with other commits, resulting a lot of wasted time.
The patch-id generation logic has been updated to ignore merges to
avoid the wastage.

* jk/patch-ids-no-merges:
  patch-ids: refuse to compute patch-id for merge commit
  patch-ids: turn off rename detection
2016-09-21 15:15:20 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
13307145a9 Merge branch 'jk/delta-base-cache'
Recently we updated the code to manage the in-core cache that holds
objects that have recently been used to reconstitute other objects
that are stored as deltas against them, but the update used an
incorrect API function to manage the list of these objects.  This
has been fixed.

* jk/delta-base-cache:
  add_delta_base_cache: use list_for_each_safe
2016-09-21 15:15:20 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a9817aaef8 Merge branch 'et/add-chmod-x'
"git add --chmod=+x" added recently lacked documentation, which has
been corrected.

* et/add-chmod-x:
  add: document the chmod option
2016-09-21 15:15:19 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
7889ed25ac Merge branch 'js/cat-file-filters'
Even though "git hash-objects", which is a tool to take an
on-filesystem data stream and put it into the Git object store,
allowed to perform the "outside-world-to-Git" conversions (e.g.
end-of-line conversions and application of the clean-filter), and
it had the feature on by default from very early days, its reverse
operation "git cat-file", which takes an object from the Git object
store and externalize for the consumption by the outside world,
lacked an equivalent mechanism to run the "Git-to-outside-world"
conversion.  The command learned the "--filters" option to do so.

* js/cat-file-filters:
  cat-file: support --textconv/--filters in batch mode
  cat-file --textconv/--filters: allow specifying the path separately
  cat-file: introduce the --filters option
  cat-file: fix a grammo in the man page
2016-09-21 15:15:19 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
07d872434d Merge branch 'jt/accept-capability-advertisement-when-fetching-from-void'
JGit can show a fake ref "capabilities^{}" to "git fetch" when it
does not advertise any refs, but "git fetch" was not prepared to
see such an advertisement.  When the other side disconnects without
giving any ref advertisement, we used to say "there may not be a
repository at that URL", but we may have seen other advertisement
like "shallow" and ".have" in which case we definitely know that a
repository is there.  The code to detect this case has also been
updated.

* jt/accept-capability-advertisement-when-fetching-from-void:
  connect: advertized capability is not a ref
  connect: tighten check for unexpected early hang up
  tests: move test_lazy_prereq JGIT to test-lib.sh
2016-09-21 15:15:18 -07:00
Johannes Sixt
40e0dc17ce t3700-add: do not check working tree file mode without POSIXPERM
A recently introduced test checks the result of 'git status' after
setting the executable bit on a file. This check does not yield the
expected result when the filesystem does not support the executable
bit.

What we care about is that a file added with "--chmod=+x" has
executable bit in the index and that "--chmod=+x" (or any other
options for that matter) does not muck with working tree files.
The former is tested by other existing tests, so let's check the
latter more explicitly and only under POSIXPERM prerequisite.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-21 14:09:54 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
b7d36ffca0 regex: use regexec_buf()
The new regexec_buf() function operates on buffers with an explicitly
specified length, rather than NUL-terminated strings.

We need to use this function whenever the buffer we want to pass to
regexec(3) may have been mmap(2)ed (and is hence not NUL-terminated).

Note: the original motivation for this patch was to fix a bug where
`git diff -G <regex>` would crash. This patch converts more callers,
though, some of which allocated to construct NUL-terminated strings,
or worse, modified buffers to temporarily insert NULs while calling
regexec(3).  By converting them to use regexec_buf(), the code has
become much cleaner.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-21 13:56:15 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
2f8952250a regex: add regexec_buf() that can work on a non NUL-terminated string
We just introduced a test that demonstrates that our sloppy use of
regexec() on a mmap()ed area can result in incorrect results or even
hard crashes.

So what we need to fix this is a function that calls regexec() on a
length-delimited, rather than a NUL-terminated, string.

Happily, there is an extension to regexec() introduced by the NetBSD
project and present in all major regex implementation including
Linux', MacOSX' and the one Git includes in compat/regex/: by using
the (non-POSIX) REG_STARTEND flag, it is possible to tell the
regexec() function that it should only look at the offsets between
pmatch[0].rm_so and pmatch[0].rm_eo.

That is exactly what we need.

Since support for REG_STARTEND is so widespread by now, let's just
introduce a helper function that always uses it, and tell people
on a platform whose regex library does not support it to use the
one from our compat/regex/ directory.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-21 13:56:15 -07:00